# Newt Gingrinch Totally Looks Like Dwight Schrute! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 22, 2012, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrinch-totally-looks-like-dwight-schrute/610285 "2012-01-22T05:39:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2012, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrinch-totally-looks-like-dwight-schrute/610285/1 "2012-01-22T05:39:18Z")
[Newt Gingrinch Totally Looks Like Dwight Schrute!](http://totallylookslike.icanhascheezburger.com/2012/01/20/newt-gingrich-totally-looks-like-dwight-schrute/?fb_ref=newpromocopy) ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2012, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrinch-totally-looks-like-dwight-schrute/610285/2 "2012-01-22T05:44:36Z")
didn’t know if this belonged in Elections, Café Society, or IMHO, so finally settled on MPSIMS. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2012, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrinch-totally-looks-like-dwight-schrute/610285/3 "2012-01-22T09:03:19Z")
[Rick Santorum and McLovin](http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/46039936/ns/today-today_people/t/young-santorum-mclovin-do-you-see-resemblance/). He still manages to look cooler than McLovin or Gingrich, however. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrinch-totally-looks-like-dwight-schrute/610285/4 "2012-01-26T01:57:09Z")
I think the resemblance is a little more striking paired with [this Dwight Schrute photo](https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/422550_360736623955797_205344452828349_1345316_2067638881_n.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrinch-totally-looks-like-dwight-schrute/610285/5 "2012-01-26T02:25:28Z")
> [@](#): > > Gingrinch [Perfect.](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_JsX63YOwlo/TtvJHz4HdFI/AAAAAAAAE6I/sF53LFbvIxg/s1600/Gingrinch.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrinch-totally-looks-like-dwight-schrute/610285/6 "2012-01-26T03:57:18Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > [Perfect.](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_JsX63YOwlo/TtvJHz4HdFI/AAAAAAAAE6I/sF53LFbvIxg/s1600/Gingrinch.jpg) I’m sorry, but everytime I think of Newt, a song from an old independant film comes to mind. “…attaaaaack…of the Killer Dumbaaaaatoe…!” ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrinch-totally-looks-like-dwight-schrute/610285/7 "2012-01-26T17:33:05Z")
Did anybody else at first blush reading the op title think it said Schultz instead of Schrute?? 😃 Gives new meaning to ‘Howling Mad.’ ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrinch-totally-looks-like-dwight-schrute/610285/8 "2012-01-26T17:49:43Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I think the resemblance is a little more striking paired with [this Dwight Schrute photo](https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/422550_360736623955797_205344452828349_1345316_2067638881_n.jpg). To me, Newt looks more like Peter Fonda’s character from _Easy Rider_ if he’d survived the bike trip, put on a few pounds, and landed a job at the _Wall Street Journal_. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2012, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newt-gingrinch-totally-looks-like-dwight-schrute/610285/9 "2012-01-28T02:11:21Z")
Rainn Wilson, the actor who plays Dwight, changed [his Twitter account’s](https://twitter.com/#!/rainnwilson) profile pic to that one of Newt. 🙂